Kentucky AG appeals judge’s order that blocks abortion ban

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Lawyer Common Daniel Cameron is asking a state appeals courtroom to overturn an injunction issued final week that blocks the state’s abortion ban.

The injunction ruling by a choose in Louisville prevents the state’s near-total ban on abortion from taking impact. The state’s two abortion clinics in Louisville have continued offering abortion because the choose first blocked the regulation final month.

Cameron’s enchantment asks the Kentucky Supreme Court docket to take up the problem, which might bypass the state Court docket of Appeals. He stated the Louisville choose “created the Kentucky model of Roe v. Wade.”

“I urge our appellate courts to reject the abortion services’ baseless argument that our structure incorporates a beforehand unrecognized proper to an abortion,” Cameron stated in a media launch Thursday.

Circuit Choose Mitch Perry, the Louisville choose, dominated final week that there’s “a considerable chance” that Kentucky’s new abortion regulation violates “the rights to privateness and self-determination” protected by Kentucky’s structure. The brand new regulation took impact when the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade in late June. Perry blocked it a number of days later.